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Chess Player list
List started by
alexander
for the Chess domain
A Chess Player is a person or machine who plays the game of Chess.
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| Deep Blue |
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Computer | Deep Blue - Kasparov, 1996, Game 1 | White |
Deep Blue is a chess-playing computer developed by IBM. On 11 May 1997, the machine won a six-game match by two wins to one with three draws against world champion Garry Kasparov. Kasparov accused IBM of cheating and demanded a rematch, but IBM...
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| Film subject | Deep Blue - Kasparov, 1997, Game 6 | White | |||
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| Garry Kasparov |
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Person | Deep Blue - Kasparov, 1996, Game 1 | Black |
Garry Kasparov (; ) (born as Garry Kimovich Weinstein on April 13 1963, in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union; now Azerbaijan) is a Russia chess grandmaster widely regarded to have been the greatest player of all time, former World Chess Champion,...
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| Award Winner | Deep Blue - Kasparov, 1997, Game 6 | Black | |||
| NNDB Person | Kasparov versus The World | White | |||
| HAL 9000 |
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Book Character | Poole - HAL 9000 | Black |
HAL 9000 (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic Computer) is a fictional computer in Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey saga. The novels, along with two films, begin with 2001: A Space Odyssey, released in 1968. It was ranked #13 on a list of greatest...
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| Frank Poole |
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Fictional Character | Poole - HAL 9000 | White |
Frank Poole is a fictional character from Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series. In Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, Poole was portrayed by Gary Lockwood.
In 2001: A Space Odyssey, Poole is an astronaut aboard the spacecraft Discovery One...
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| Giulio Polerio | Person |
Giulio Cesare Polerio (1548, Lanciano - 1612, Rome) was an Italian chess player.
In 1575, Polerio, who was nicknamed l'Abruzzese because Lanciano is in the Abruzzo region in Italy, accompanied his friend Giovanni Leonardo to Madrid. He and Leonardo...
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| Gioacchino Greco | Person |
Gioachino Greco (1600 – c. 1634) was an Italian chess player and writer. Greco recorded some of the first chess games on record, 77 in total. His games, all against anonymous opponents ("NN"), were quite possibly constructs, but acted as highly...
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| Evgeny Sveshnikov |
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Evgeny Ellinovich Sveshnikov (Jevgēņijs Svešņikovs) (born Cheliabinsk, February 11, 1950) is a Latvia International Grandmaster of chess, and a chess writer.
He played in his first USSR Chess Championship when he was just 17 years old and became...
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| Gennadi Timoshchenko | |||||
| Emanuel Lasker |
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Person | Lasker - Bauer, Amsterdam, 1889 | White |
Emanuel Lasker (December 24, 1868 – January 11, 1941) was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher who was World Chess Champion for 27 years. In his prime Lasker was one of the most dominant champions, and he is still generally regarded...
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| Horatio Caro | Person |
Horatio Caro (5 July 1862 – 15 December 1920) was an English chess master.
Caro was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, but spent most of his chess career in Berlin, Germany. He played several matches. In 1892, he drew with Curt von Bardeleben (...
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| Marcus Kann | |||||
| José Raúl Capablanca |
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José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera (November 19, 1888 – March 8, 1942) was a Cuba chess player who was world chess champion from 1921 to 1927. He is often referred to as a candidate for the greatest chess player of all time.
Referred to by many chess...
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| Karen Asrian |
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Karen Asrian (24 April 1980 – 9 June 2008) was an Armenia chess Grandmaster.
As of the October 2006 FIDE rating list, his Elo rating was 2634, tied for the fourth highest rank in Armenia.
He won the national Armenian Championship in 1999, 2007,...
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| Anatoly Karpov |
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Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov (; born May 23, 1951) is a Russia chess grandmaster and former World Champion. He was undisputed World Champion from 1975 to 1985, repeatedly challenged to regain the title from 1986 to 1990, then was FIDE World Champion...
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| Judit Polgár |
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Judit Polgár (born July 23, 1976) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster. She is by far the strongest female chessplayer in history. In 1991, she achieved the title of Grandmaster (GM) at the age of 15 years and 4 months. She was, at that time, the...
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| Boris Spassky |
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Boris Vasilievich Spassky (also Spasskij) (born January 30, 1937) is a Russia-French chess grandmaster. He was the tenth World Chess Champion, holding the title from 1969 to 1972.
Spassky won the Soviet Chess Championship twice outright (1961,...
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| Jan Timman |
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Jan Timman (born December 14, 1951) is a Dutch chess Grandmaster who was one of the world's leading players from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. At the peak of his career he was considered to be the best non-Soviet player and was known as "The...
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| Alexander Alekhine |
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Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine (; Russian Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Але́хин) (October 31, 1892 – March 24, 1946) was the fourth World Chess Champion.
At the age of twenty-two he was already among the best chess players in the world. During the...
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| Vladimir Kramnik |
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Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik (born June 25, 1975) is a Russia chess grandmaster and was the World Chess Champion from 2000 to 2007.
In October 2000, he beat Garry Kasparov in a match played in London, and became the Classical World Chess Champion....
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| Max Euwe |
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Machgielis (Max) Euwe (last name is pronounced /ø:wə/) (May 20, 1901 – November 26, 1981) was a Dutch chess Grandmaster, Mathematician, and author. He was the fifth player to become World Chess Champion (1935–1937). Euwe also served as President of...
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| Milan Vidmar |
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Milan Vidmar (June 22 1885 – October 9 1962) was a Slovene electrical engineer, chess player, chess theorist, philosopher, and writer, born in Ljubljana, Austria-Hungary (now Slovenia). He was a specialist in power transformer and transmission of...
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| Tigran Petrosian |
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Tigran Petrosian (June 17, 1929 – August 13,1984) was World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969.
He is often known by the Russian version of his name, Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian . He was nicknamed "Iron Tigran" due to his playing style because of...
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| Alexander Beliavsky |
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Alexander Henrikhovich Beliavsky (sometimes transliterated as Belyavsky, born December 17, 1953) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster.
Beliavsky was born in Lviv. He currently lives in Slovenia and he plays for the Olympic team there. He is noted for...
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| Maurice Ashley |
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Maurice Ashley (born March 6, 1966 St. Andrew, Jamaica) is a chess grandmaster. He is the first and as of 2007 only African-American grandmaster. In the October 2006 rating lists, he had a FIDE rating of 2465, and a USCF rating of 2520 at standard...
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| Yasser Seirawan |
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Yasser Seirawan (born March 24, 1960) is a chess grandmaster and 4-time US-champion. He was winner of the World Junior Chess Championship in 1979. Seirawan is also a respected chess author and commentator.
He was born in Damascus, Syria. His...
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| Raymond Keene | Person |
Raymond Dennis Keene OBE (born 29 January 1948) is a chess grandmaster, but is better known as a chess organiser, columnist and author. He was awarded the Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to chess in 1985.
Keene won...
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| Mikhail Tal |
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Mikhail Tal (; , Mikhail Nekhemievich Tal, ; sometimes transliterated Mihails Tals or Mihail Tal) (November 9, 1936 – June 28, 1992) was a Soviet-Latvia chess player, a Grandmaster, and the eighth World Chess Champion.
He was often called "Misha" ...
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| Viktor Korchnoi |
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Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi (also Korchnoy, Kortchnoy, Kortschnoi, etc.; pronounced in the original Russian as "karch NOY") (Ви́ктор Льво́вич Корчно́й), born March 23, 1931, in Leningrad, USSR, is a professional Swiss chess player and currently the...
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| Nigel Short |
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Nigel David Short MBE (born June 1, 1965 in Leigh, Lancashire) is often regarded as the strongest British chess player of the 20th century. He became a Grandmaster at age 19, and challenged for the World Chess Championship against Garry Kasparov at...
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| Xie Jun | Person |
Xie Jun (; born October 30, 1970, Baoding, Hebei) is a chess player from Beijing, China. She was twice (eighth and tenth) Women's World Chess Champion, from 1991 to 1996 and again from 1999 to 2001. Xie is only the second woman to hold the title...
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| Susan Polgar |
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Zsuzsanna "Susan" Polgar (born April 19, 1969, as Polgár Zsuzsanna) is a Hungarian-born American chess player. She is a member of the Executive Board of the United States Chess Federation, having been elected on July 26, 2007. She is also a chess...
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| David Bronstein |
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Person | Immortal losing game | Black |
David Ionovich Bronstein (Дави́д Ио́нович Бронште́йн; February 19 1924 – December 5 2006) was renowned as a leading chess grandmaster and writer. Described as a creative genius and master of tactics by pundits the world over, Bronstein provided...
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| Tony Miles |
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Anthony John Miles (23 April 1955 in Edgbaston, Birmingham – 12 November 2001 in Harborne, Birmingham) was an English chess Grandmaster.
Miles was born in Edgbaston in Birmingham, and he learned the game of chess at an early age. In 1968 he won the...
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| Mikhail Botvinnik |
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Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik (; ) ( – May 5, 1995) was a Russia International Grandmaster and long-time World Chess Champion. As an electrical engineer, he was one of the very few famous chess players who achieved distinction in another career...
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| Luke McShane |
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Luke James McShane (born January 7, 1984) is an English chess player. His peak Elo rating was 2656 in April 2004, at which time he was ranked 42nd in the world. As of October 2007 his rating is 2592 and he is ranked fourth in England.
McShane was...
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| Vasily Smyslov |
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Vasily Vasiliyevich Smyslov (born March 24, 1921, in Moscow) is a Russia chess grandmaster, and was World Chess Champion from 1957 to 1958.
He was a Candidate for the World Chess Championship on eight occasions (1948, 1950, 1953, 1956, 1959, 1965...
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| Viswanathan Anand |
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Viswanathan Anand (, ) (born December 11, 1969) is an India chess grandmaster and the current World Chess Champion.
Anand won the FIDE World Chess Championship in 2000, at a time when the world title was split. His win in the World Chess...
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| Paul Keres |
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Paul Keres (January 7, 1916 – June 5, 1975), was an Estonia chess grandmaster.
Keres narrowly missed a chance at a World Chess Championship match on five occasions. He won the 1938 AVRO tournament, which led to negotiations for a World...
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| Leonid Stein |
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Person |
Leonid Zakharovich Stein (; November 12 1934 – July 4 1973), Soviet Grandmaster chess player from Ukraine. He won three USSR Chess Championships in the 1960s (1963, 1965, and 1966), and was among the world's top ten players during that era.
Leonid...
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| Zhang Zhong | Person |
Zhang Zhong (; born September 5, 1978 in Chongqing) is a Chinese chess player. He is married to WGM Li Ruofan.
Among Zhang's more notable results are silver medals at the 1996 and 1998 World Junior Chess Championship, first in the 2001 Chinese...
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| Ruslan Ponomariov |
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Ruslan Ponomariov (; ) (born October 11, 1983) is a Ukrainian chess player and former FIDE world champion.
On the January 2008 FIDE Elo rating list Ponomariov had a rating of 2719, making him number eighteen in the world and the Ukrainian number...
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| Bent Larsen | |||||